Word: hurtfulness
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Going to the multiplex in January is like taking a Baghdad stroll with the IED squad from The Hurt Locker: there are bombs everywhere, and you're sure to stumble upon at least one. After enduring some of the Inexcusable Entertainment Devices from the first weeks of 2010 - Leap Year, The Spy Next Door, Tooth Fairy - the crap-detecting sense of moviegoers becomes so acute that they may be grateful for a picture that registers between Abysmally Awful and Mildly Mediocre. Such a one would be When in Rome, which is possible to sit through without wanting to stick darts...
...combination of evidence that relates to the elements of the particular legal tests and also compelling narrative that shows who gay people are, which is important because the pervasive invisibility of most gay people is our biggest challenge. So some of the plaintiffs' testimony was to reveal the hurt most of us usually don't express, which supports the legal claim that there is an injury of sufficient magnitude to warrant a remedy. And other testimony was to show that the supposed reasons for reimposing a caste system are a mixture of baseless nonsense and deliberate lies...
...When you first hear it, it's shocking," says one hurt-looking corporate chef...
...When we found out Kessler got hurt, it was devastating to the team,” Bellamy said. “You don’t want anyone’s career to end that way, but for her, as arguably the best goalie in the country, it was especially terrible...
Members of the media were coming up to me asking for my opinion on the precipitous drop of Akpan’s draft stock. I did my best to reason that his MLS combine performance (underwhelming by most accounts) had hurt him, but surely four years of dominance (including a stint with the U.S. U-20 Men’s National Team) would take precedent in team evaluations, right? At least for one team, that seemed to be the case...